You only have to look at all the recent attempted attacks on U.S. soil to know that New York City continues to be the major target for terrorists.
So what can be done to keep the city safe?
The city’s Lower Manhattan Security Initiative is a broad plan that uses a massive surveillance system, including cameras, license plate readers, and more on-the-ground officers. The mayor and police commissioner want to expand it.
“We have a program that we hope to have funded where we will take our Lower Manhattan Security Initiative which consists of about 3,000 cameras and migrate that program up to Midtown Manhattan,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
“We remain a prime target for terrorists. That’s something that all New Yorkers understand, and it’s something that we need Washington to understand as well,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Funding cuts by the federal government started back in 2006 under the Bush administration. Both New York and Washington saw a 40 percent reduction, while cities like Jacksonville and Sacramento, which have never suffered terrorist attacks, saw increases.
(Source: CBS2 HD)
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Expanding security will accomplish nothing as long as they keep being ordered to look at only those who are the political enemies of the liberals in charge and to look away from the liberals (like the Islamics, and those who follow Rev Wright and the White supremacists who hate Jews and claim Bush destroyed the Twin Towers on behalf of Israel etc…) who are actually the terrorists.
This expansion is not to keep New Yorkers safe it is to expand government at taxpayer expense.
Bigger government means more powerful government, all the better to oppress the sheep, for the liberal rulling elite.